. . . . . . .

‘Euery dogg to a man,’ said the cutted fryar,

‘And I my selfe to Robin Hood.’

18

‘Over God’s forbott,’ said Robin Hood,

That euer that soe shold bee;

I had rather be mached with three of the tikes

Ere I wold be matched on thee.

19

‘But stay thy tikes, thou fryar,’ he said,